Questi sono tutti piccoli simboli della sconfitta di Dio.The Tower of Babel symbolizes the pride of men who defied God by creating a building that can touch the sky, unacceptable to God who punished them by preventing them from speaking the same language.

For me, the myth of the Tower of Babel has always been the same as “The Three Musketeers” that can be summed up in a very effective “All for one and one for all”.

If we are united we can even defeat God, that’s, in my opinion, the meaning of the Tower of Babel, and it was exciting to find it in the center of Milan along the boulevard Don Luigi Sturzo.

This building designed by César Pelli Argentinian by birth, but American by vocational tranning, recalled me the “The Chapel of Thanksgiving” by Philip Johnson

Its architecture is directly inspired by the Tower of Samarra, the Malwiyya .

We can find other representations of the myth also in Rome, in Borromini’s “St. Ivo alla Sapienza Church”

And we can go on and on, up to the hugely popular “Tower of Babel” by Pieter Bruegel